Sentences with phrase «changing academic opportunities»

The takeaway: Don't underestimate the effect of peer pressure in your school — it's powerful enough to get students to walk away from even life - changing academic opportunities.

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From NCAA Division I to junior colleges, injuries, academics, homesickness, playing - time issues or job changes can all create immediate roster spots and scholarship opportunities which may not have been available one month ago.

Here is an opportunity for all of us to gather together, hear stellar researchers and speakers from many academic disciplines, and finally have a conversation about how to change the paradigm to one of respect and dignity for our babies and young children.

We will press ahead to support this project and take our appropriate role with our government and academic partners to facilitate this game - changing opportunity for our city.

The group emphasized that academic culture must change to recognize the need for effective career development opportunities for graduate students and postdocs and that participating in these activities is a valid, even necessary, way for trainees to spend their time.

With dramatic changes occurring in models of health care delivery and payment, research funding, and ACGME policies, AECD offers up an opportunity for leaders in academic Endocrinology to support and learn from each other.

Such interventions focus not on improving academic skills or knowledge, but on changing students» mindsets about learning — combating negative feelings, or increasing a sense of belonging, or reframing failure as an opportunity for improvement.

(Sec. 4201) The bill makes several administrative changes to the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program, which supports academic enrichment opportunities for children during non-school hours.

I plan to change the current conversations regarding strategies on narrowing the achievement gap and create more opportunities for the academic and social advancement of black male students.

«We believe that HGSE, as one of the world's leading academic institutions, has the responsibility to change the conversation in order to improve student opportunity, achievement, and success in rural communities,» she says, stressing that rural education needs to be part of the dialogue around providing quality education to all.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

In an education setting, it is important to ensure that these changes enhance students» academic opportunities.

But where a state boarding school can meet a vulnerable child's needs by providing stability, strong pastoral care and an environment rich in academic and extra-curricular opportunities, the results can be life - changing.

«We created this beautiful school and then our whole focus changed from just academics, where it was academics, academics, academics, to really a whole - child approach and making sure students are not just getting the high academic opportunities, but music, art, dance, electives and enrichment programs,» he said.

As we embark upon a new academic year at Battle Primary Academy, it is an opportunity to, once again, reflect upon the changes that have taken place at the school since our January 2013 conversion.

Someday, she would like to see things change in Italy with regards to so few opportunities in specialized veterinary medicine, possibly even utilizing her academic skills to be part of the future in Italy to lead those changes.

Initiated in 2012 by the National Park Service National Capitol Region Urban Ecology Research Learning Alliance (UERLA) and George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication (4C), the internship program is designed to create opportunities for students of diverse academic and personal backgrounds to gain skills and experience in the synthesis, interpretation, and development of science communication products while increasing knowledge about climate change and its effects on Change Communication (4C), the internship program is designed to create opportunities for students of diverse academic and personal backgrounds to gain skills and experience in the synthesis, interpretation, and development of science communication products while increasing knowledge about climate change and its effects on change and its effects on parks.

One of the top research universities in the world, MSU focuses its vast resources on creating solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges, while providing life - changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 200 programs of study in 17 degree - granting colleges.

They will miss out twice: first, on an excellent opportunity to increase their understanding of the scientific issues surrounding climate change, especially Dr. Mann's preferred branch, paleoclimatology; and second, a gracefully - written memoir of an academic career unexpectedly subjected to the most intense political rough - and - tumble imaginable.

Now because I'm an academic, I have to give you the opportunity to do some follow - up reading: The scientists on the expedition have published a surprisingly accessible article about their findings, «Lakeside Cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 Years of Holocene Population and Environmental Change» which is available in full text, along with good illustrations, on PLoS ONE.

I am positive that my efforts in identifying training opportunities for teachers and staff members of Wayland Public Schools is what brought about a significant change in the school community, leading to accolades from the school board, and a more profound place in the academic community within Glen.